2013 BWF World Championships

The 2013 BWF World Championships was a badminton tournament which was held from 5 to 11 August 2013 at the Tianhe Sports Center in Guangzhou, China.^[1]

2013 BWF World Championships

Tournament details
Dates	5 August – 11 August
Edition	20th
Level	International
Competitors	345 from 49 nations
Venue	Tianhe Sports Center
Location	Guangzhou, China
← 2011 London 2014 Copenhagen →

Host city selection

Copenhagen, Guangzhou, and Macau submitted bids for this edition of championships.^[2] On 9 December 2011, Badminton World Federation decided to award the championships to Guangzhou during a meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand.^{[citation needed]}

Draw

The draw was held on 22 July at Guangzhou, China.

Schedule

All five events started on the first day and concluded with the final on the last day.

All times are local (UTC+8).

Date	Time	Round
5 August 2013	10:00	Round of 64
6 August 2013	13:00	Round of 64
		Round of 32
7 August 2013	10:00	Round of 32
8 August 2013	13:00	Round of 16
9 August 2013	12:00	Quarterfinals
	18:00	Quarterfinals
10 August 2013	12:00	Semifinals
	18:00	Semifinals
11 August 2013	13:00	Finals

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's Singles	Lin Dan	Lee Chong Wei	Du Pengyu
			Nguyễn Tiến Minh
Women's Singles	Ratchanok Intanon	Li Xuerui	Bae Yeon-ju
			P. V. Sindhu
Men's Doubles	Hendra Setiawan Mohammad Ahsan	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng
			Kim Ki-jung Kim Sa-rang
Women's Doubles	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Eom Hye-won Chang Ye-na	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl
			Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei
Mixed Doubles	Tontowi Ahmad Lilyana Natsir	Xu Chen Ma Jin	Shin Baek-cheol Eom Hye-won
			Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	2	2	4	8
2	Indonesia (INA)	2	0	0	2
3	Thailand (THA)	1	0	0	1
4	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
5	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
6	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
7	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		5	5	10	20

Participating countries

345 players from 49 countries participated at this year's edition. The number in parentheses indicate the player contributed by each country.

•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Bulgaria (4)
•  Canada (3)
•  China (26)
•  Chinese Taipei (17)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Czech Republic (5)
•  Denmark (17)
•  Egypt (2)
•  England (12)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (5)
•  Germany (14)
•  Hong Kong (13)
•  India (14)
•  Indonesia (28)
•  Ireland (3)
•  Israel (1)
•  Japan (19)
•  South Korea (18)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Malaysia (25)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mexico (3)
•  Netherlands (6)
•  New Zealand (8)
•  Norway (2)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Poland (6)
•  Russia (14)
•  Scotland (6)
•  Singapore (6)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (2)
•  Spain (3)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sweden (3)
•  Switzerland (3)
•  Thailand (14)
•  United States (8)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (7)
•  Vietnam (1)
•  Wales (2)

References

1. "2013 BWF World Championships". BWF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
2. Sachetat, Raphaël. "WORLDS 2013 – Macau, Copenhagen and Guangzhou". Badzine.net. Retrieved 18 March 2017.

External links

• tournamentsoftware.com